Re: Can I password protect individual operating system entries?

[Andrei Borzenkov]

В Tue, 04 Aug 2015 04:31:40 +0000
Seth Johnson <address@hidden> пишет:

> Someone was asking me if they could password protect specific OS entries,
> I.e. a password would be required to boot that OS. I did a bunch of
> Googling but everything I found mentioned editing 10_Linux and the like
> inside /etc/grub.d/, however the files were completely different from any
> of the examples or articles I could find.
> 
> I realize I could probably edit grub.cfg but that would get overwritten
> every kernel update. My friend is running Ubuntu 14.04 if it matters.
> 
> Is this still possible?

Standard grub-mkconfig scripts shipped with upstream grub do not have
support for it. Nor do I see easy way to add this support (how to
identify "specific OS entries"?) So if you need this your best bet is
to maintain grub.cfg manually.